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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
8
Public subscription rates for the Cheyenne Wy daily leader are listed for one year six months three months and one month with postal matter stamped as second class dated September six nineteen sixty seven at Cheyenne post office under the act of March third eighteen seventy nine.
A collage of brief newspaper fragments notes the Industrial club campaign gaining 500 members with fifty more promised. Other items mock and remark on trusts, war risks, local politics in Wyoming and Omaha, plus a light verse about love in a week.
The Dispatches portray Gifford Pinchot as optimistic yet confrontational about forest policy in the West. It argues Roosevelt uses authority to enforce Pinchot’s plan, while western critics demand limits on Pinchot and his program, suggesting the country could have survived without him.
The Pinedale Roundup urges Mr. Pinchot to focus on tennis, urging him to play the game he understands and leave others alone. The remark reflects local sentiment about Pinchot's activities.
John Sharp Williams replies to publishers by cable urging Speaker Cannon to recognize a motion to take the bill from the committee and pass it over their heads. The House favors removing the duty but one man blocks recognition, halting justice to a major industry. Salt Lake Herald reports the dispute.
William Jennings Bryan quoted a Solomon proverb in a Oklahoma legislature speech. He offered a condensed version stating The wise man gets the idea into his head the foolish man gets it in the neck. The Columbus State notes the remark as an attempt to simplify the ancient line for memorability.
A reflections piece contrasts life with a staged drama where plots resolve happily. It imagines effortless wealth, timely heroism, and swift romantic outcomes, critiquing real life where such neat conclusions rarely occur. The poem satirizes pay, debt, and petty troubles outside stagecraft.
The 81 year old Judge Orlando Burrell plans a humorous campaign stunt by riding a white mule for a congressional bid in Illinois. The piece notes his esteemed status as a youthful figure in the state and comments on public fascination with policemen and civic respect. Rhode Island moves a constitutional amendment to give veto power more reach while facing a governor without a veto and a population mix in its legislature.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various papers. The panels poke fun at politics manners education and daily life with lines about ideal fathers mothers lectures voting prize fights and prohibition town observations. Notable quips include playful exchanges about marriages resolutions and beverage habits.
Voters in Laramie County are notified of a Democratic delegate convention in Cheyenne on May 13 1908 at 10 am to elect fourteen state delegates. Primary meetings occur May 7 in Cheyenne and Wheatland from 7 to 9 pm with other precincts at 2 pm. details list ward and precinct representation and where each primary will be held. Frank I Johnston is chairman and S G Hopkins secretary.
Charles Kukuljan a wealthy saloon keeper and mine owner from Suffield was found dead at the roadside near Trinidad with a bullet wound to the heart. He often carried 300 to 400 dollars and was accompanied by two unknown men when leaving town. His gun lay nearby and robbery is cited as a motive.
The horse afflicted with swamp fever has started its journey to Washington for clinical study. It travels in a special car under Veterinarian W. C. Long as the Bureau of Animal Industry conducts experiments to understand the deadly disease and seeks a cure.
John Clark of Denver, a Maxwell automobile agent, is in Cheyenne to establish a Maxwell agency after driving a Maxwell runabout from Denver. The piece also contrasts political rhetoric about Charlies Warren Fairbanks with a Republican tribute praising Lincoln Grant McKinley and Roosevelt.
The excerpt hints at spring as a showcase for Nebraska, with atmospheric imagery praising the season's qualities and its perceived superiority in the region.
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